Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, The TE is not a continous zoom. The WATE however is. Cheers, Michiel Fokkema > Datum: 04/02/08 12:51 AM > Van: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> > Aan: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> > CC: > Onderwerp : RE: [Leica] Is the TE a zoom? > > I think the way the cams move and therefore the order of the Fl is not > really relevant..... it is the way it was designed to move...and keep in > mind the TE and the WATE are marketed for 3 FL only. So why make the opto > mechanical arrangement more difficult and complex? > > Look at some recent zooms and you see really weird movements as you change > FL or distance. > > OTOH, Henning is usually right........ > > Frank Filippone > red735i@earthlink.net > > > > It's even easy to tell the TE can't be a zoom because the order of > focal lengths is: 28-50-35. Can't have a zoom with that arrangement. > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >